Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says

https://news.err.ee/1609888417/russian-border-guards-crossed-into-estonia-with-unclear-motives-minister-says

40 Comments

  1. Cynical_Classicist on

    I’m really scared that the world is sliding into WW3. Everything seems to be falling apart.

  2. Clear_Anything1232 on

    > When asked why the border violators were not detained, Taro said they had already returned to Russian territory before that could happen.

    >”We are not in a position to go into the depths of Russia to apprehend them,” he said.

    Understatement of the year

  3. This has been Moscow’s usual move for a while now. The same goes with the sabotage campaigns, bribed politicians and messing with elections through propaganda. Russia will push it, back off right away and come with some bull excuse. They test the waters and put pressure into European governments, knowing they won’t retaliate fearing escalation.

  4. Sad-Guarantee-4678 on

    That’s just putin trying to provoke a reaction out of NATO to confirm his bullshit narrative that he fights all of NATO instead of just Ukraine. It would give him an excuse for his abysmal underperformance and possibly give him an off ramp

  5. Guys. One question, and I think people don’t talk too much about it. Russia vs EuNATO. What about turkey? Will they help NATO or the alliance break up and EU it’s on their own?

    Because ok, let’s say USA does not help EU. But what about Turkey? They’re rated 9th in the world army ranking, just googled and opened first link don’t read too much into this.

    Edit: can we grow some balls and actually act against these provocation? At least against these drones that cross romanianpolish border ffs

  6. BrokenDownMiata on

    If Putin invades Estonia next I will genuinely riot if my country doesn’t sign up to war.

  7. Forward-Loan-2282 on

    putin is a very weak russian man. Absolutely nothing else to show for his war in Ukraine except, mounds of rubble with dead russian and north koreans

  8. Iwannafucktanks on

    Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried a Crimea style takeover of one of the outer cities that speak Russian. My money is on Narva.

  9. Europe needs to just respond with action, putting and his cronies only understand and respect force

  10. Hayseussforever on

    Unless Putin is replaced by a rational human being, it is likely that there will be a ground war in Europe within the next decade. We can only hope that such war will be limited to conventional weapons but with Putin in the saddle, I would not expect that limitation.

  11. Russia testing what most Europeans fear – that European leaders don’t dare act against Russia. Putin hoping they do so he can claim legitimacy “they fired first”

  12. Wise-Novel-1595 on

    Not sure why Russian troops aren’t shoot on sight when they cross a NATO border. It’s not like they’re crossing for legitimate purposes.

  13. Imagine how much nicer the world would be without evil bastards like Putin in it. Why can’t he just fuck off and work on making his country nicer instead of everybody else’s worse.

  14. Independent-Crab5625 on

    Russia testing the waters to see how far they can go. Estonia should have shot them to let Russia know don’t fuk around our house.

  15. An open conflict with Russia is becoming more and more likely. A lot of star are aligning themself :

    * Russia is actively testing the water.
    * Our leader aren’t really reacting. Which can be interpreted by Russia as weakness.
    * Our air defense is clearly not adapted to modern wars with tons of drones.
    * Russia do have some capability to deploy drones everywhere from cargo.
    * Our democracy are really suffering from Russian propaganda.
    * The US is actively trying to isolate themself from the rest of Nato.
    * The US might soon be occupied somewhere else. Maybe invading another country.

    This doesn’t mean that something will happen. But if Putin want to invade the baltics, he will have soon an opportunity. And Putin being really bad at cost calculation, he might try something risky by underestimating our defense.

  16. I read nuclear… Please dont put Russia and unclear in the same sentence. My drunk ass was trying to find a bunker

  17. Rattus_NorvegicUwUs on

    Idk why France the UK and USA don’t just change their nuclear doctrine to stop Russian meddling.

    “If the United States ever falls to civil war, or civil uprising, given Russias goals to destabilize the United States— our first course of action will be to nuke Moscow”

    Suddenly the lines have shifted from invading land to invading the minds of Americans. Ask Moscow to remove themselves from American politics— or we will remove Moscow from the map.

    Russia has dead hand. Why not us too?